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From: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 09:37:56 -0700
Subject: ixgbe: fix possible deadlock in ixgbe_service_task()
Patch-mainline: v5.3-rc6
Git-commit: 8b6381600d59871fbe44d36522272f961ab42410
References: bsc#1113994 FATE#326315 FATE#326317

ixgbe_service_task() calls unregister_netdev() under rtnl_lock().
But unregister_netdev() internally calls rtnl_lock().
So deadlock would occur.

Fixes: 59dd45d550c5 ("ixgbe: firmware recovery mode")
Signed-off-by: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c |    5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -7917,11 +7917,8 @@ static void ixgbe_service_task(struct wo
 		return;
 	}
 	if (ixgbe_check_fw_error(adapter)) {
-		if (!test_bit(__IXGBE_DOWN, &adapter->state)) {
-			rtnl_lock();
+		if (!test_bit(__IXGBE_DOWN, &adapter->state))
 			unregister_netdev(adapter->netdev);
-			rtnl_unlock();
-		}
 		ixgbe_service_event_complete(adapter);
 		return;
 	}